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ACCA continues to strengthen its global presence
July 19th, 2018
Award-winning professional body ACCA (the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants) has seen a record level of satisfaction from its members and students. Overall 80.7 percent of ACCA members and students were satisfied or very satisfied with their professional ...
Trump’s Whirlwind European Tour
July 18th, 2018
President Trump visited Britain on a much-anticipated visit. The political situation in Washington is very different from when Mrs May last visited. In Washington, President Trump appears to have successfully gained control of and tamed the Deep State, while ...
Woman who once bought bitcoins for $300,000 cash in paper bags sent to prison
July 17th, 2018
A woman who for years went by the name “Bitcoin Maven” on localbitcoins.com—a peer-to-peer website for buying and selling anonymous bitcoins in person—was sentenced Monday to 366 days in federal prison, three years of supervised release, and a $20,000 ...
Stocks in Europe are poised for a mixed open Tuesday; Technology stocks in focus
July 17th, 2018
Stocks in Europe are poised for a mixed open Tuesday as investors await further corporate results and remarks by Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell. The FTSE 100 is seen up by 6 points at 7,601; the DAX is expected ...
5 Things you should know about trading cryptocurrency in 2018
July 16th, 2018
Almost a decade has already passed since the first cryptocurrency, Bitcoin, was introduced by Satoshi Nakamoto. This new form of a digital asset has remained out of the mainstream until 2013 when Bitcoin became actively traded across a number ...
Asian stocks fell, British pound rose; Key financial events coming up this week
July 16th, 2018
Asian stocks fell as mixed economic data in China failed to allay concern about the world’s second largest economy’s ability to the withstand the impact of the trade dispute. Crude slid and the yen traded near the weakest level ...
Asian stocks halt four weeks of losses, Pound drops; Here are the main market moves
July 13th, 2018
Asian stocks headed for their first weekly advance in five as trade tensions appeared to ease after China refrained from detailing retaliation plans against threatened U.S. tariff increases. The pound slipped on the latest woes from the Brexit quagmire. ...
The crypto-currencies that die before they have bloomed
July 12th, 2018
It has been the biggest craze in investment of the last two years – the idea that creating your own crypto-currency through an Initial Coin Offering (ICO) is the route to riches. But now an academic study has revealed ...
Bitcoin is down 66%. But it still may be the future of money
July 11th, 2018
The price of one bitcoin (XBT) is now hovering around $6,400. That’s a more than 50% drop in 2018 and a 66% plunge from the all-time high of just under $20,000 that bitcoin hit in late December. Other cryptocurrencies, ...
Stocks in Asia declined, the Euro and the Aussie were down; Here are the main market moves
July 11th, 2018
Stocks in Asia declined with U.S. equity futures, industrial metals and China’s yuan after the Trump administration released the biggest list yet of Chinese goods it may hit with tariff increases, a move that China said will force it ...